This page is, all useful alternative search engines on one page

Type the search once, and get the result from a random search engine.
Or freely pick a specific SearchEngine that you want for this specific search.
RandomSearchEngine isnt a meta search engine. Like,
Excite (results from Google Yahoo and Bing
http://iboogie.tv
http://zapmeta.com (i'm testing it though...
Problems with meta-engines that this page fixes,
o Speed (we want our browser HomePage as fast as possible
o Easy (all search-fields on one page, fewer clicks
o Privacy (all code on this page is open, nothing is collected.
(No AutoSuggest etc
o Choice (users have full control to change things as they wish
(We choose which engines to use
Having said that, meta-engines are still kinda cool.
o DISQUALIFIED Engines,
baidu.com eeew!
daum.net (popular SouthKorean) bloat!
yebol.com feels wierd, perhaps i get used to it...
ixquick.com slow, perhaps they'll fix that some day...
Many meta-engines, mostly for massive bloat and other wierdness.
All engines that mostly just search thier own content,
Wiki amazon ebay facebook etc etc.

More Privacy

o sourceid= and client= spywares have been removed.
(Firefox gets money when people use the Firefox SearchBar, i'm willing to add a
sourceid client to support worthy causes...)
(Btw, DuckDuckGo gives 10% to FOSS projects, so i'm keeping thier tiny ads
http://gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/02/duckduckgo-foss-donations-2010.html
o NoAutoSuggest spyware
o Changed Yahoo to method=post for better privacy (From old http://scroogle.org/scget.html)
se.altavista Youtube Bing Google Ask brakes on method=post. LycosVideo often brakes.
o HTTPS when appropriate...
I need some cache/archive of https://ssl.scroogle.org/sslnote.html
How HTTPS protects privacy.
HTTPS Scroogle can use method=get so everything works again in
StartPage and DuckDuck and Scroogle!
BUG HTTPS brakes proxy filtering, like our Privoxy and Squid, that we control.
Which is good for going unfiltered through proxies that we dont control.
That's why i dont use HTTPS Google yet...
FIX Somehow, do filtering at the Browser...
https://duckduckgo.com?kf=-1&ku=1&ky=-1&kx=g&q=linux
https://startpage.com/do/metasearch.pl?keyword=linux
https://encrypted.google.com/search?complete=0&q=linux
(Very syntax and case sensitive)
https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=linux&n=5

More Choice and Privacy

o Choose your SearchEngine, or use the randomizer
o To improve privacy even further, we favor those search-engines
with better privacy policies
o Easiest and quickest way to use this page is to,
Save it (for fastest access),
(it's fully Portable, no external files are required)
Edit it if you wish,
Load it in the browser and Set it as Home Page.
o All code is fairly minified, but you are free to minify more if you wish :D

More Choice and Simplicity

o Google has become annoying enough that the other annoying SearchEngines deserve
a chance to compete.
This page also reduce annoyances when possible.
o All family filters are Default. Adding optional Uncencored buttons when avalible...

Search Engines competition

Hopefully this page catches on. And becomes the popular choice in people's
Browsers, to replace Google as Start Page or Home Page.
So that Google starts caring about the users's best, rather then the depth
of Google's own wallet, or rather, vaults.
(Not saying money in itself is bad. But nor is it good in by itself.
It only depends on how it's used. I wish Google would dismantle
thier global spying-factory and return to 'Dont be evil')
But enough hippie-talk. Time to act, and speak a language that even
Google listens to. Each time we search, Google gets payed to show ads.
~90% of Google's income comes from people using Google. This is where
our choice comes in. Just as 'we all' made Google possible, we can also
get Google up again to decent standards.

TODO

o Remake things from QuirksMode to all-in native HTML5, and add fully SEO semantically friendly with *sane* CSS...
o TESTING rel=noreferrer
It should tell browsers that no referrer information is to be leaked when following the link.
I'm unsure if it has effect in forms...
I'm also unsure how to use it in JavaScript...
It may have no use on method=post perhaps?
DOOO Carefully look at 'Live HTTP Headers' to verify any effect...
a href=http://www.stardrifter.org/cgi-bin/ref.cgi >TESTING vanilla
a href=http://www.stardrifter.org/cgi-bin/ref.cgi rel=noreferrer>TESTING noreferrer
a.... location.href='http://www.stardrifter.org/cgi-bin/ref.cgi'
form .... action http://www.stardrifter.org/cgi-bin/ref.cgi
Referrer can be scrubbed using HTTPS 301 redirect.
Added a HTTPS deferer to Bing and few more of such SearchEngines that wont let
us clean referrers,
https://derefer.it/http://example.com
Obvisously this hinges on derefer.it uptime, and trustiness.
Aaaand it's down. Trying http://derefer.me?http://startpage.com
Falling back to rel=noreferrer.
o SEO code to show Google that this page has sections. And allow humans as
user-friendly Bookmarks as we can get, unless splitting it to seperate files...

I doubt Bookmarks can contain JavaScript to pre-select the
Image Search-box, kinda like
body onload=document.forms.qG.Gw.focus()>
http://ilovethecode.com/Javascript/Javascript-Tutorials-How_To-Easy/Javascript_Focus_Form_Field.shtml
Or href=javascript:focus #id ...?
Place RandomSearchEngine on your homepage or blog or wherever you like,
o TODO A great solution for all these problems would be Random-Search-Provider for each category.
We simply type our SearchProvider-choice and search-query in the browser AdressBar,
query words (for random web search (Default)
i query words (for random image search
v query words (for random video search
Only problem is it's not intuitive, training and installing is required.
When/if this is implemented we wont need browser Start/Home-Pages nor
browser Search-boxes
Adding Search-Providers is still buggy,
http://gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/02/usability-issues-with-adding-search-engines-to-web-browsers.html
Holy cool, this takes a stab at solving the browser SearchBox mess,
http://addons.mozilla.org/addon/SearchEngineTags
Seems the addon sends the search through thier page,
http://searchenginetags.com
and on to the intended destination. From the user perspective it's
easier then installing many SearchProviders.
BUG/FEATURE The SearchEngineTags addon uses
Google AutoSuggest spyware/nag/feature by default.
BUG/FEATURE searchenginetags.com seems to use thier own autosuggest.
BUG Baidu is included, which is a favorite censoring tool by the
chinese dictatorship.
o TODO To protect our IP, optional Buttons with urls that goes through a remote
proxy that neither we nor the engine controls.
Obviously we risk the proxy spying on our traffic instead, choose
proxies with care...
Can i know if i can trust this for example?
http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://google.com/search?pws=0&complete=0&q=linux
We use a cached copy of Google.com as proxy...?
o TODO Tend to complaints about lacking "colors" and "images"...
(My plan is to steal an idea from Bing, and make it much better...)
o TODO Add multiple SearchButtons with builtin options.
TODO Fix so clicking text should work (radio knobs are too small) like
http://google.net/advanced_image_search
Or make radio knobs wider...
o TODO Two Buttons 'Safe Search' and 'Uncensored Search'.
TRY onclick...
input type=button value="NoFilter Search" style="background:#c00;color:#fff">
o TODO RSE Submit button, RightClick to allow Open In New Tab/Window in the background.
Perhaps add a SubmitButton that Opens in new window
(in the foreground, not optional background. I want maximum user-choice).
Replace Search Buttons with Search Links,
o Allows RighClick for open in NewWindow. yay!!
(Links seem more appropriate, you click)
Turns out, i'm not skilled enough to make JavaScript link with
dynamic adresses that allows users to see in StatusBar...
plz interweb, help!!
Shift+Enter or something to open in new background tab...
o DOING... Type once fills all fields value="..."
Similar to http://web.archive.org/web/20100102191807/http://20search.com
"Search terms are typed one time and then automatically entered into every search box"
Google pre-fills their second search-field with the just-previously searched word,
input class=lst type=text name=q maxlength=2048 title=Search value="sdfgsdfgsdfg"
I think it's JavaScript or likely PHP...?
o TODO Two versions of the page,
o Vanilla with everything, including better code-comments for
helping people roll thier own all-in-one search-page.
o Fully optimized page, most text moved elsewhere, for max-speed
o Shortend-url (Hopefully 3.ly after Libya-war is sucessfully over
o Short file-name, no .htm just rse
o TODO Detect, and suggest Browser Updates.
if screen.width below 1024 then it's mobile, no further detection.
if Mozilla/4.0 then OLD BROWSER DETECTED, no further detection.
DOOO if Opera8- JS things not supported then OLD/LOW-QUALITY BROWSER DETECTED
DOOO if Firefox3.5- JS things not supported then OLD/LOW-QUALITY BROWSER DETECTED
DETECT CHROME, and SAFARI ...
Sa Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2) AppleWebKit/533 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5 Safari/53
Ch Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2) AppleWebKit/535 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14 Safari/53
Ir Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2) AppleWebKit/534 (KHTML, like Gecko) Iron/12.0 Chrome/12 Safari/53
Au Mozilla/5.0 ( Linux ) AppleWebKit/52+ (KHTML, like Gecko, Safari/41) Arora/0.8
KM Mozilla/5.0 ( Linux ) Gecko/20100228 K-Meleon/1.5
Ko Mozilla/5.0 ( FreeBSD ) KHTML/4.5.4 (like Gecko)
if AppleWebKit & Safari & NOT Chrome & NOT Iron = Safari
if AppleWebKit & Safari & Chrome & NOT Iron = Chrome
o TODO Other languages as development stabilize a bit...
I know English and Swedish. So if you know any more, mail anything you've got.
(a beauty of the web is that it's easy to combine contributions)
Including title and meta description.
And Engine parameters to change SearchEngine's layout language.
Perhaps option to reduce search-results to pages of that language...?
All languages with lower english-speaking populations has more priority.
thai
french
arabic
korean
bengali
spanish
russian
chinese
japanese
ukrainian
portuguese
vietnamese
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
Next priority are tiny shrinking languages...
(I want as many languages as possible on the net, i would hate a english-only
planet. Multi-lingual thinking is *good* for thinking)
o TODO Flawless Accessibility...
more text for visually impaired... (Would it also help googlebot?)
shortkeys...
o TODO It's outside my skills, but it'd like a Firefox addon that is a
SearchProvider that picks a SearchEngine at semi-random from a list of proper
engines.
o TODO Poll: Which SearchEngine deserve to favor more...
Poll: Which SearchEngine should drop...
o Useful overview, Active and dead Engines
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine
o TODO Privacy Policy
Apart from the current Google Ad. This page isnt, nor will ever, track or
spy on any visitor:
It dont use any kind of Cookies or SuperCookies.
It dont record the user's Browser (unique) fingerprint.
It dont record the user's Search Queries.
It dont use Link-Tracking to track what links a user clicks.
It dont use any JavaScript to track what people do on this page.
It dont record visitor's IP adresses.

o Testing New Search Engines...

TEXT SEARCH
Seems nifty... (the black gets old after 3.2 seconds though)
http://9w9.org/search.php
Very good, kinda similar to this page but without the privacy nuttery :P
http://100searchengines.com
OMG, cute. It's not very useful, but it shows a glimpse of the future, no doubt.
http://qwiki.com
(spoiler, it's wiki made into video)
http://wolframalpha.com
It's not the usual way of doing Search, i admit, i dont get this yet...
Blekko review
http://quintura.com?request=linux
Quintura (Results from Yahoo's index???) (method=post WORKS)

o Mail me suggestions, 0bi AƬ sverige. nu
Is there anything RSE should try to add?
Is there something RSE should try to change?
Is there something RSE should try to remove?
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